Dressing up as a bear, a clown, a princess or a zookeeper is not how most people spend a Sunday, but a group of final-year Bachelor of Learning Management students at CQU Gladstone did just that when they organised a family day for the community recently.

The students organised the 'Make a Splash' expo as part of their assessment for the BLM's Advocacy, Leadership and Change course.

CQU Brisbane International Campus (BIC) had the privilege of hosting a visit by 3 professors and 9 students from Endicott College (Massachusetts, USA) on June 1.

Professors Rich Nastasi, Aaron Viner and Sergio Inestrosa brought the group of students to BIC as part of an educational tour designed to enhance the students' degree studies.

Residents of Rockhampton and Gladstone have the chance to meet The Courier Mail Big Book Club's latest featured author - Michael Robotham - when he visits Central Queensland on June 28-29.

And thanks to CQU Bookshop - which is keen to let people know it offers more than textbooks - a range of Robotham titles will be available for sale at all his CQ appearances:

Thursday June 28 Rockhampton Northside Library, 7pm - 8.

Rockhampton-based Central Queensland University will embark on a 2-year $40-million university-wide cost-saving and aggressive marketing plan to adjust to the changing patterns of international and domestic student enrolments, it was announced yesterday (June 13) by the Vice Chancellor to about 50 of the University's most senior managers.

"We need to reassess and reconfigure for what will emerge down the road," explained Vice Chancellor and President John Rickard, referring to what he believes is a long-term challenge faced by "regional" universities operating in robust, natural-resources-based economies, such as Queensland.

Rockhampton's Relay for Life 2007 held at CQU Rockhampton raised more than $230,000.

These funds will help Cancer Council Australia support our local cancer patients, provide local preventative education campaigns and enable research into treatments.

The CQ Alliance Francaise will conduct a French language workshop at CQU Rockhampton (Bldg 18) on the weekend of June 16-17.

This event is aimed at those CQ Alliance Francaise students who are at the intermediate and advanced level and also for students from other Alliance Francaise branches across Australia.

Woongarra Coast Monitoring & Education Project (WCMEP) is a community group interested in marine conservation and coastal resource management in the Bundaberg region.

Since 2001, the WCMEP group has collaborated with CQU Bundaberg and CQU Centre for Environmental Management on monitoring coastal water quality, marine organisms and fringing coral reef, including coral bleaching, and has promoted awareness of stormwater quality.

Having successfully survived a plagiarism scandal, National Treasure Scobie Spruce pumps out his iconic novels with the help of a prescription pill popping habit and marriage to the wealthy Claudia.

Then his research assistant Fullalove becomes seriously paranoid after being beaten up while researching Scobie's body parts novel.